Ep. 0187: DHP Villains: Woodrow Wilson, Part 2
The Dangerous History Podcast
CJ
4.6 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
(Originally published Sept. 2019)
Part 2 of CJ’s deep dive into the life & career of Woodrow Wilson covers most of Wilson’s career in academia, stopping just as he’s about to become president of Princeton University.
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- Woodrow Wilson’s time as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University
- Woodrow Wilson’s time as a college professor, starting at Bryn Mawr and continuing at Weselyan and Princeton
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, CJ here. Welcome to episode 187 of the Dangerous History podcast. Yes, |
| 0:07.6 | 187. If memory serves, that was the cop radio lingo code for a murder. And I suppose it is |
| 0:15.8 | somewhat appropriate because we are going to continue to murder the memory and reputation of one Thomas Woodrow Wilson. |
| 0:27.4 | This time we're going to continue to talk mostly kind of biographically and chronologically, |
| 0:33.9 | and we're going to be talking about Wilson's life events during most of his time in academia, |
| 0:39.3 | from earning his PhD through his years as a professor. |
| 0:43.5 | And we won't go super in-depth into the actual content of his academic work in this one, |
| 0:49.6 | though I'm sure we'll probably mention it a little bit in passing. |
| 0:53.1 | But in the episode after next, |
| 0:56.2 | what will end up being now part four in this series, that is exactly what I'm going to do. |
| 1:00.8 | I'm going to drill down into the content of Wilson's academic work because it's very interesting |
| 1:06.9 | and also very important, I think, to understanding his presidency. |
| 1:18.9 | This episode was originally going to also include coverage of Wilson's tenure as president of Princeton University. |
| 1:26.5 | So it was going to cover his entire time and academia, his entire career there, including his eight years as president of Princeton. |
| 1:29.1 | But the episode was becoming so big that I decided to detach that phase of his career into its own episode, which is going to be part three. So, |
| 1:35.6 | as of now, my plan is Woodrow Wilson, Part 3 is going to cover his time as president of Princeton, |
| 1:41.6 | and Woodrow Wilson, Part 4, is going to dig into the actual content |
| 1:45.9 | of his academic work to try and dissect and understand and, of course, vehemently critique his |
| 1:51.5 | ideas, because again, these are important aspects of who he was and why he did what he did |
| 1:56.6 | when he eventually became president of the United States. So here we go into part two of DHP villains Woodrow Wilson, covering Professor Wilson. I'm I'm I'm |
| 2:18.3 | I'm |
| 2:19.3 | I'm I'm I'm |
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